On 20 Aug 2007 14:34:33 +0300, Yuval Kogman wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 08:46:29 +0000, Mikhael Goikhman wrote:
>> > I try to come with good use cases where it's a more right tool than grep
> > and I can't. GNU grep does colors too, and multiple --exclude '*.rb',
> > and even extra features like context lines.
> >
> > Unfortunately ack is much slower then grep (about 9 times), and yes, I
> > speak about "grep -r --exclude" or "grep -P PERL_REGEXP long file list".
>> The point of ack is that people for whom ack is fast enough don't
> have to write their own aliases, bash functions and grep wrappers
> ;-)
And as such ack is ok. The point I wanted to make is the ack doc is very
unfair toward grep. By saying that it trumps grep 99% of the time, it
confused at least one man. I expected an improved speed on large dirs.
;-)
Regards,
Mikhael.
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